Looking back at Eminem’s list of enemies, the list is longer than you think.
Rap king Eminem is famous as a talented person because he has successfully gone against the tide in that hiphop culture that is now the default ‘sovereignty’ of black people. But there is another quality of his that everyone knows clearly. When it comes to Eminem, it is also his arrogance in music when he is not afraid to make fun of anyone. For that reason, his list of enemies in the music industry is long and will become even longer. Let’s take a look at some of the names that have been “summoned”!
Rap king Eminem has a long list of enemies.
Christina Aguilera
Throughout Eminem’s career, the person who has perhaps been most vilified by Eminem – is none other than Christina Aguilera. Tensions began when Eminem decided to marry his long-time girlfriend, Kim Marther, while he had previously abused her both physically and mentally.
Eminem even dissed his wife even though they were not divorced at that time.
That incident faced many mixed opinions from public opinion and even Eminem’s colleagues in the years 98 and 99 of the last century, in which Christina Aguilera was one of the majority of those who opposed this marriage. . Building an image as a new generation feminist icon, Christina took advantage of the golden opportunity of the 1999 VMAs to express her attitude. With just one short but poignant sentence, that sentence fatally stabbed the self-esteem of Eminem sitting in the audience below – “Yeah he’s cute, but he married Kim”. And to avenge his high self-esteem at that time, Eminem used all his abilities to humiliate Christina in the song The Real Slim Shady.
Eminem used the image of Christina Aguilera as a sex doll, and the lyrics also imply that she is an immoral person.
Although she is known as a pop star with a great voice, but when a rap boss humiliates her name like that, this girl is not gentle enough to respond to Eminem with 2 rap songs continuously released as an insult. .
Eminem – Christina Aguilera. One of the most controversial feuds of the early 2000s.
Now, this feud is over. After hearing 2 consecutive diss tracks from Xtina, Eminem humbled himself to apologize to this singer.
Britney Spears
Didn’t do anything to touch Eminem, never even mentioned his name. Yet Britney Spears is also on this blacklist. This pop princess is known as a gentle and lovely person in the music industry, but Eminem was forced to use her as an attack on the Grammys committee.
Eminem mentioned Britney Spears in the same song where he hooked up with Xtina, still in the familiar song The Real Slim Shady. Eminem only lightly mentioned Britney in just one short sentence, but it was enough to shock you because of the hidden content of that poisonous rap sentence. The original rap verse is as follows:
“But Slim what if you win wouldn’t it be weird?”
Why? So you guys can just lie to get me here?
So you can sit me here next to Britney Spears.”
At that time, Britney Spears was emerging as a global phenomenon with the hit Baby One More Time. And Eminem, like many people at that time, believed that Britney would become famous like other internet phenomena – quickly rising and quickly fading. To put it bluntly, everyone thought Britney Spears would be a one hit wonder (people who only hit one song and then were gone). Through that, we can understand the hidden meaning that if the Grammys organizers placed him next to Britney Spears, he would consider it an insult.
In this MV, he even cosplayed as Britney Spears to mock this phenomenon.
It wasn’t until much later when Britney got rid of that bad rumor and proved that she would be a new pop legend that Eminem apologized to her.
Justin Timberlake
It seems like Eminem has some invisible grudge against the entire 00s pop generation. When Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears and now even Justin Timberlake are also ‘invoked’ in his songs.
This handsome male singer is also on the list of enemies.
With Justin Timberlake, Eminem spoke frankly and without hiding his thoughts about the situation of his rival pop industry at that time: “I’m sick of girls hanging out in pop or boy bands, all of them. What you guys do is troublesome to me. And so, God sent me down to destroy your career.” Part of it is true because it is not difficult to see that the situation in the pop industry at the moment seems to be exactly stereotyped: female singers are all petite, blonde and beautiful like a flesh-and-blood Barbie doll, while Boy bands are also all handsome and all sing cheesy love songs.
Mariah Carey
No matter how chic and annoying the female diva Mariah Carey is, she is still caught in the sights of this ‘Rap God’ guy.
Thanks to this diss track aimed at Mariah Carey – The Warning, he officially became a legend of hooking others.
In The Warning, he opened up about the ambiguous relationship between him and this female diva. Throughout the lyrics are sensitive rap verses describing Mariah Carey and Eminem’s secret affair. Even though the above song does not have a MV, it still attracts a lot of attention from music listeners, helping it to be on the list of the most famous diss tracks in hiphop history.
Machine Gun Kelly – Iggy Azalea
White female rapper Iggy Azalea – one of the 3 most famous rappers of the 10s generation, was also gently called out by Eminem in the recently released song Killshot.
Iggy probably can’t even want to be left alone.
Eminem’s song Killshot has attracted a lot of attention from the media as well as global hiphop music lovers since its release. This is also the song that continues to “fuel the fire” in the escalating war between Eminem and his junior Machine Gun Kelly. The special thing is that in this song, Eminem “called up” Iggy Azalea as ironic evidence of MGK’s reputation. This is the rap verse that is making noise in public opinion:
‘You ain’t never made a list next to no Biggy, no Jay, next to Taylor Swift and that Iggy ho, you about to really blow.’
With one shot, Iggy Azalea was shown by Eminem that she no longer had the qualifications for him to respect her. As for Machine Gun Kelly, this guy is probably very honored to be the first junior to receive such a song from this king.
